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New climate disclosure requirements for Hong Kong-listed companies: top tips for how issuers can adapt

Last Friday (19 April 2024), the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (‘HKSE’) published consultation conclusions: to bring in new climate-related disclosure requirements (‘New Climate Requirements’) to enhance c...

Author(s): Teresa Ko

Climate change and human rights: a new chapter for States, NGOs, and businesses?

On 9 April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued its first substantive decision on human rights aspects of climate change in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland...

Author(s): Christoph H. Seibt, Juliane Hilf, Moritz Becker, Patrick Schroeder, Carsten Wendler, Jan Henning Buschfeld, Stefanie Spancken-Monz, Marlen Vesper-Gräske, Domen Tursic

  • climate change
  • human rights
  • environment
  • green energy
  • litigation
  • low-carbon
  • regulatory
  • society

What to expect from the EU’s CSDDD #1: Enforcement mechanism

Per our kick-off blog on the EU’s new CSDDD (here), we are now providing a series of more in-depth overviews of aspects of the directive. In this blog, we focus on the public enforcement mechanism for...

Author(s): Marlen Vesper-Gräske, Valentin Weigel

Singapore Competition and Consumer Commission publishes Guidance Note on environmental cooperation agreements

Background Sustainability initiatives and the green transition have led companies to query whether cooperation with competitors is compatible with competition law when it pursues a green objective. Eu...

Author(s): Kaori Yamada, Edward Dean, Hitoshi Nakajima

  • antitrust litigation
  • antitrust and competition
  • regulatory

JFTC proposes revisions to the Environmental Sustainability Guidelines

Background  On 15 February 2024, the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) published revised draft “Guidelines Concerning the Activities of Enterprises, etc. Toward the Realization of a Green Society und...

Author(s): Kaori Yamada, Edward Dean, Hitoshi Nakajima

  • antitrust and competition
  • regulatory
  • low-carbon

Comparison of SEC Final Rules on Climate-Related Disclosures against Other Climate-Related Disclosure Regimes

On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) finalized its long-awaited climate-related disclosures rules (the “Final Rules”), which set forth what climate-related information ...

Author(s): Elizabeth Bieber, Juliane Hilf, Vanessa Jakovich, Teresa Ko, Pamela Marcogliese, Sascha Arnold, Sam Houshower, Marlen Vesper-Gräske, Charlotte Aspin, Ian Good, Heather Kellam, Zo Khalid, Prince Kudolo, Jordan Phelan

  • capital markets and securities
  • corporate governance

Oral hearings in appeal of landmark Shell judgment commence

Today is an important day for climate litigation, marking the beginning of a series of oral hearings in the appeal proceedings of the landmark 2021 Shell judgment in which the District Court of The Ha...

Author(s): Moritz Becker, Simon Duncombe, Cat Greenwood-Smith, Juliane Hilf, Jonathan Isted, Mijke Sinninghe Damsté

Sustainable global supply chains: EU’s CSDDD finally adopted by Council

After a lengthy and unusual period of intense political activity, the Council of the European Union has finally voted in favour of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). The Cou...

Author(s): Christoph H. Seibt, Juliane Hilf, Mijke Sinninghe Damsté, Julia Förster, Marlen Vesper-Gräske, Lea Bareil, Iris Hammerschmid, Valentin Weigel

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